Cybersecurity Capstone Project
General
- Certificate
- 15 learners; teams of 5
- 80 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 3/3 project matches
- Canada
- Academic experience
- Any
- Any
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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July 11, 2022Experience start
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July 12, 2022Project Scope Meeting
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July 19, 2022Check-in
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July 30, 2022Final Report/Presentation
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July 30, 2022Experience end
Timeline
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July 11, 2022Experience start
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July 12, 2022Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between project teams and company to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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July 19, 2022Check-in
Present the preliminary work completed thus far, which may include research, findings and recommendations.
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July 30, 2022Final Report/Presentation
Final deliverables, materials, and generated reports should be ready for presentation and submission.
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July 30, 2022Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Is your organization looking to explore the value of cybersecurity? Students will work in teams applying critical thinking, skills and knowledge learned in their 17-week Cybersecurity program to solve a problem or opportunity in your organization related to cybersecurity.
In this SAIT training program, students are developing the knowledge, skills, and aptitude to apply fundamental principles of cybersecurity to support business decision-making processes.
Training Components:
- Network Security Protocols
- Programming Foundations for Cybersecurity
- Security Tools
- Enterprise Network Security
- Cybersecurity Frameworks
- Risk Identification and Management
- Vulnerability, Threats and Attacks
- Cyberspace and Cyber Domain
- Learner skills
- Business analytics, Business consulting, Data analytics, Storytelling and data visualization, Data analysis
- Deliverables
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Deliverables may vary depending on the scope of the project. It will be important to stick to the scope due to time limits and student abilities. The final project deliverable may include:
- A report outlining the work they performed, and analysis they conducted including visualizations and recommendations they may have as a result of the analysis. The students will provide a proof of concept of the solution.
- A 20-minute presentation of the project and results to the industry partner and classmates.
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If you're interested in working with students beyond their capstone projects, we invite you to look into the work-integrated learning placement opportunity:
ICTC’s WIL Digital is an innovative Work Integrated Learning program that helps small and medium-sized employers grow their businesses by providing the wage subsidy for hiring EDGE UP 2.0 participants. The wage subsidy is at 75% of salary up to a maximum of $7500. The employer must provide a meaningful work integrated learning opportunity for EDGE UP 2.0 participants.
Employers, please indicate your interest in WIL Digital by writing to ICTC: edgeup@ictc-ctic.ca
EDGE UP (Energy to Digital Growth Education and Upskilling Project) is a multi-stakeholder program launched in Calgary in 2019 to test new approaches to skills development for workers to re-engage with technology jobs being created in all sectors of Calgary’s economy. The program targets professionals displaced from the structural change in the oil and gas sector.
Project Examples
Beginning in July, students in groups of 4-5 will spend around 80 hours assisting your organization to synthesize theories and frameworks that can inform the understanding of your problem, analyze and test your organization's technical architecture to identify vulnerabilities, prevent exploitation, and protect it against any security breach.
Students have strong skills in coding, networking, vulnerability analysis, operating systems internals and exploitation, security policies, penetration testing, writing technical reports and basics of malware analysis, IoT and Wireless security.
At the end of the project, the students will submit their key findings and/or applications developed to your organization.
Project examples may include but are not limited to:
- Identify systems and applications vulnerabilities and generate reports
- Manage security incidents
- Automate processes to detect vulnerabilities, prevent exploitation and attacks and mitigate risks
- Networking and applications Penetration Testing
- Assist with reviewing and creating cybersecurity policies
- Design & deliver cybersecurity awareness training
- Research & deliver a risk assessment for the organization
- Analyze the technical architecture of an organization and deliver a report on how to improve it to mitigate risks
- Implement infrastructure and tools to log and monitor systems to detect threats and protect the organization against system and data breaches
Project Timeline:
The project is expected to go into two phases as follows:
- Phase 1 (June 15 - July 8): Students are focused on completing coursework in their full-time training program. Once a project is matched with a student project team, we expect that during this phase the initial project communications and sharing of project materials/resources can begin to ensure project objectives are agreed upon before starting Phase 2.
- Phase 2 (July 11 - 29): Students have completed their coursework and will now be focused and working full time on your project.
Important notes:
- Please set clear project objectives with your student project team. Given the short timeframes, the goal/objective of the proposed project should be relatively simple.
- Your organization must offer a Non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The agreement should allow the students to show what they have done in the project and demonstrate samples of the work done. Confidential information can be removed.
- An IP agreement should be provided by your organization and signed by the students and a representative from your organization.
- If no IP or NDA is required for the project, please offer this in writing to the students to avoid future conflicts.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Be available for a quick phone call with the capstone instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or phone calls over the duration of the project to address student questions.
Provide all project materials/resources and access requirements to students in a timely manner.